John George Lidwell

John George LidwellDublin solicitor born in Fermanagh and a friend of JJ's father. JJ sought his advice in the summer of 1912 after George Roberts of Maunsel & Co. refused to issue Dubliners without cuts. JJ's letters to Lidwell do not survive. Lidwell had offices at 33 Upper Ormond Quay, a stone's throw from the Ormond Hotel fictionalized in the "˜Sirens' episode of Ulysses and in which the solicitor features. JJ learned of his death in August 1919 from a Freeman's Journal clipping, which he enclosed to Harriet Shaw Weaver as proof of the prophetic power of Ulysses. A few weeks earlier, JJ had told her that "˜[a]s soon as I mention or include any person in it I hear of his or her death or departure or misfortune'. Robert Spoo and Ronan Crowley